Top 415 Exercise Quotes

It’s too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That’s the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
William Sloane Coffin
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energ

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
Red Skelton
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
Lance Armstrong
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
John Boyle O’Reilly
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
Chauncey Depew
I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.
Deepika Padukone
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.
Robert Jarvik
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson
If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a… lot of cardio just from being a parent.
Hugh Jackman
I’m like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.
Trisha Yearwood
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Billy Sunday
You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We’ve been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can’t please everybody.
Madeleine M. Kunin
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
Robert Fripp
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
Steven Pinker
You can’t consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken… It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
Paula Abdul
My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
Eric Bana
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
Cate Blanchett
Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
Patrick MacGill
Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.
Daphne Oz
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
Ben Kingsley
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max de Pree
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?
Trai Byers
It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
Vera Wang
I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.
Jojo Moyes
If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.
Bikram Choudhury
The true exercise of freedom is – cannily and wisely and with grace – to move inside what space confines – and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
A. S. Byatt
It’s tough. It’s very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It’s always an exercise in restraint.
Ryan Reynolds
I have the distinct feeling that when I’m old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There’s a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.
Rebecca Makkai
I am a Mormon because I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And

I am a Mormon because I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I exercise faith in Him, I am blessed with the Holy Spirit in my life.
Jane Clayson
Getting up to Zaire – getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali – I thought this will be a matter of just a little exercise. I’ll probably knock him out in three rounds. Two, three – maybe three and a half rounds. That was the most confidence I had in my whole life.
George Foreman
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
I don’t exercise.
Lou Holtz
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
Kenneth H. Cooper
I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there’s just too much commotion there.
Jane Wiedlin
Personal style isn’t simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories – from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.
LZ Granderson
Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put ‘into shape’ for optimal learning.
Naveen Jain
Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.
Anne Graham Lotz
I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
Joe Bastianich
I like to work when I’m not working – do something that may not be considered work, but to me it’s work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.
Andy Warhol
I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.
Peter Berg
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
Thiruvalluvar
Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.
Joyce Meyer
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it’s this wonderful adjunct.
Walter Dean Myers
Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
Linford Christie
I don’t have stamina in exercise… but I have it in life.
Salma Hayek
I used to stay up all night, roam around, drink, and carry on like everybody else. That all changed when I got older, started to exercise and play golf. I knew by the time the day was over I would not feel like exercising, so I made it a point to exercise early.
Johnny Mathis
No, I don’t want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
Star Jones
When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.
Tom Holland
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
Fanny Kemble
It’s an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
Mark Rylance
I like to eat. I’m always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too – you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.
Salma Hayek
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.
George William Russell
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Cyril Falls
Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.
James Black
I exercise; I have a big career. I’m a parent, and I run a music school.
Flea
I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
Yingluck Shinawatra
I watch what I eat. I’m careful with exercise. I do enough to try to stay healthy, but I don’t overdo, and I pace myself… Most important of all though, I try to think healthy thoughts.
Alana Stewart
I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.
Janice Dickinson